Cherie Lunghi
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 8
Language
English
Description
Threatened by the investigation, Joanna Gold's killer has struck again and now begins to stalk her younger sister, Clara. She persuades Boyd to let her wear the red dress and go onto the Heath in an attempt to catch her stalker. When the Commissioner hears of this dangerous plan, he furiously intervenes. Boyd is in deep trouble.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 1
Language
English
Description
Thomas Rice, known as The Gambler, was jailed for murdering five women in the late 1980s. So when a stalker begins to harass the only living victim of the jailed serial killer, Boyd reinvestigates his pet theory that Thomas had a partner, who is still on the loose.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 2
Language
English
Description
Boyd's theory seems to have been proved right and the Gambler's partner is apparently active once more. He has abducted a young woman. The team are up against time in tracing her and her abductor. Can they read the cards before another life is gambled away?
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 7
Language
English
Description
Beautiful 18-year-old Joanna Gold famously disappeared in broad daylight on Hampstead Heath in 1989. Now her famous red dress has been discovered in a lock-up in Kings Cross. Boyd is certain that when he finds the owner of the lock-up, he'll have found Joanna's murderer.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 3
Language
English
Description
Harry Newman is an old man, dying in a London nursing home. When he makes deathbed confession of twelve separate 'unauthorized killings', the Cold Case Team are called onto the trail of a suspected serial killer and his executioner. They embark on an investigation to discover the facts surrounding the deaths of each of the names on Harry's deathbed list.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 4
Language
English
Description
Revenge for a fatal miscarriage of justice in the early 60s seems to be behind the execution of the members of the jury. Boyd seeks help from the former investigating officer. They dig up Frank's body from Bethnal Green cemetery, to match DNA. Forensic work reveals that the body is not Frank's. So who is it? And where is Frank Sutton?
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 6
Language
English
Description
The team's quest to find the murderer is leading them further up the political ladder. Government secrecy does not make their life easy. Pressure is applied from above as Boyd closes on his quarry. Grace tries to urge Boyd to be cautious but he ignores her and risks his career to get to the truth.
Author
Series
Waking the Dead volume 5
Language
English
Description
The team reinvestigates the unsolved murder of Home Office advisor Katherine Reed. Katherine was a prominent feminist academic who swapped sides to join the establishment. Boyd and the team discover a trail of intrigue that leads all the way to the top.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 4
Language
English
Description
Conchita is disillusioned by her marriage, and Nan meets Julius Folyat - who is immediately attracted to her.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 6
Language
English
Description
Julius insists that Nan continue with their façade of a marriage, but Nan is unable to deny her love for Guy.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 2
Language
English
Description
The St. Georges set about finding an English governess for their youngest daughter and, having arrived in London, the Buccaneers proceed to take English society by storm.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 3
Language
English
Description
Virginia makes an unpleasant discovery about her new husband and gives birth to a son.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 5
Language
English
Description
Lizzy marries rising MP Hector Robinson and Conchita asks for Nan's help with her unwanted pregnancy.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 1
Language
English
Description
The holiday atmosphere of Newport, Rhode Island, is shattered when Conchita Closson, a New York debutante, announces her engagement to a British aristocrat.
15) Excalibur
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
The epic tale of King Arthur roars to life in this story of Arthur's rise to power, the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin the Magician, the golden age of Camelot and the search for the Holy Grail. Adapted from Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur.
16) The Mission
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Sweeping and visually resplendent, THE MISSION is a powerful action epic about a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons) who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires. It reunites key talents behind The Killing Fields: co-producer David Puttnam, director Roland Joffé and cinematographer Chris Menges. Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture Award,...
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 3
Language
English
Description
The strain of being 'married to the hospital' takes its toll on Sister Ada Russell, as she nears collapse. On one of the London's Jewish wards, Nurse Goodley finds herself increasingly drawn to the charismatic radical Saul Landau - but Saul has a life-threatening illness.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 6
Language
English
Description
All the secrets burst open, as Matron Luckes clashes with Sister Russell for leaving London to help a family in the slums, while Dr. Culpin clashes with Bennett for giving up studying to be a doctor. And Mr. Dean, supposedly clean, returns to work in the Operating Theatre. In the dead of night a sweatshop fire brings in scores of children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy.
Author
Series
London Hospital volume 2
Language
English
Description
A scandal brews as Nurse Goodley suspects that Mr. Dean is ignoring the terrible side-effects of a new anaesthetic. Must she risk everything and turn whistleblower? Nurse Bennett fears that her secret alliance with Dr. Culpin has been discovered when Matron Luckes sends her into private nursing.